Following the Golden Globes I found myself spiraling, devouring award show best dressed lists from 2010 on. I googled phrases like red-carpet-plus-size-backless-dress, desperately trying to find proof that we have somehow moved beyond the limited red-carpet fashion options Gabourey Sidibe struggled with in 2010, Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy called out in 2012, and Leslie Jones called out in 2016. “Two Oscars ago, I couldn’t find anybody to do a dress for me. I asked five or six designers — very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people — and they all said no,” McCarthy shared in a Redbook interview in 2014. I came up wanting in my search. Instead I found the same select designers being worn again and again (honorable mention to Christian Siriano for consistently designing enviable red carpet looks for plus size icons), and quotes from my current favorite plus size actors like Aidy Bryant, Shannon Purser, and Barbie Ferreira reiterating the same demeaning wardrobe struggles. These stories reflect the inescapable truth that even if you somehow claim one of the very few roles for plus size actors and are nominated for an award, designers will still refuse to dress your body and you’ll be relegated to the seemingly endless parade of sleeved dresses as is to be worn on the red carpet by anyone above a size 12.
Kat Eves, who has styled plus sized comedians and musicians like Dulce Sloan, Mary Lambert, and Kristen Bartlett, reiterates the difficulty of finding an event worthy dress, “When we are talking about sourcing for red carpet for plus size, the number of designers who have something ready to go gets smaller and smaller the larger the size, so most of the time if it’s a bigger event like the Emmys, it’s going to be a custom gown, that the client will likely be paying out of pocket for.”
Other difficulties, Eves mentions, include finding a designer that won’t make comments about the client’s body, ensuring that another plus size celebrity isn’t already wearing (or have worn) a specific dress, and the reality that intersectionality is always at play, that it is that much harder to find designers willing to work with plus size Black celebrities.
Eves did say that, as we’re seeing with mainstream fashion, there are more options within plus size evening wear. But even after a dress is found, there are always the comments from the press, the fashion elite, and the general public. Eves tries to protect her clients from this, but acknowledges that’s just not realistic. “Anytime anyone passes an opinion on your body or how you choose to dress it, they are bringing their own baggage and their own trauma into it,” Eves says. “Oftentimes when we are saying something unkind about something else, it’s because we have our own feelings of helplessness, the choice to bully is a way to feel a momentary hit of power. But you can know all of that, and still hurt when you read those remarks.”
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